It's the Mayo Brothers—doctorin's the game. They're not like the others who get all the blame! When your health is in trouble you can call them on the double. They're smarter than the others—you'll be hooked on the Brothers! Unh!

Join us once more as Bambi Chambers reads us a bedtime story about doctors who not only believed in advancing medical science, but only charging patients what they can afford. This time it's The Value of Sharing: The Story of the Mayo Brothers. In this children's biography from the 1980s we meet a pair of magical talking scissors and take a trip to the circus for no reason at all. The boys grew up holding ether-soaked rags on patients' faces while their Dad performed surgery on the kitchen table and their Mom read them medical journals as bedtime stories, or at least that's Jamie's interpretation!

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Jamie Chambers drags Bambi back into the life of Newt Gingrich, now a college professor with a wife and two children as he plots to take over the 6th Congressional District of Georgia, takes a huge advance for a book he would never write, and downplays his love of Richard Nixon. Newt chides his opponent for plans to work away from her family if elected while he constantly cheats on his wife during her cancer treatments and divorces her immediately after winning—before giving a middle finger to the friends and supporters who helped get him to Washington.

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Jamie Chambers drags his reluctant sister Bambi back to the year 1909 for another episode of "No Time For Love Doctor Jones," where we continue our chronological exploration of the life of Indiana Jones. In this episode young Henry Jones, Jr. goes on safari in Africa with Theodore Roosevelt, learns how to shoot guns, and helps white colonists massacre a herd of antelope. Marvel at the horny antics of the elder Doctor Jones and Ms. Seymour's equally horny admiration of the former President of the United States.

Ponder why old Indiana Jones is at a celebrity shoe auction in this latest exploration of the greatest whip-cracking archaeologist in all of fiction!

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Newt Gingrich wasn't just the former Speaker of the House here in the United States, he was the one-time college history professor of co-host Jamie Chambers. Journey back to the 1940s as Bambi learns all about Newt's humble origins (largely thanks to his mother's roller rink romances). Find out how the little guy terrorized his grandmother with a snake collection, tried to start a zoo at age eleven, and snuck around behind his mother's back to watch (gasp!) nature documentaries. Laugh as you learn how his oversized head affected his football career. And be amazed that not long before graduating high school Newt was caught hooking up with his geometry teacher—whom he eventually married!

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Apologies for the lower audio quality of this recording. This episode was thrown together in a hurry and recorded on cheap microphones in Bambi’s car! Things should be back to normal for next time.

Thanks to Broadway a lot of people know about Aaron Burr—third Vice President of the United States and first member of the executive branch to shoot a former Secretary of the Treasury. But fewer people know that he was arrested and tried for treason after attempting to form a secret army to steal western territory for himself. President Thomas Jefferson was personally determined to see his former Veep rot in prison. To quote the musical version of the Marquis de Lafayette: “You are the worst, Burr!” The podcasting siblings Jamie and Bambi Chambers rip into the later life and highly ironic death of Aaron Burr (Sir).

It's another baffling dive into 1980s biographies written for children! The podcasting siblings Bambi and Jamie Chambers learn all about RFK Jr.'s ultimate nemesis (i.e. a pioneer of germ theory and vaccine science) when they read The Value of Believing In Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur. This time our hero is absent for half the book while we learn all about a stick-wielding German kid named Joey who enjoys tormenting dogs and is gifted with rabies as punishment, before becoming the first person ever cured from the deadly disease. Instead of a single science fact, we instead learn that vaccines are magic and contain miniaturized British soldiers equipped with darkvision and bayonets. And if you want to also achieve success you must clearly wander around in public muttering "I believe I can!" after getting blasted on chemical fumes.

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Jamie and Bambi are at it again! Anthony Comstock persecuted New York smut dealers and tavern owners until he found his target of choice—women who advocate for freedom, education, and equality. When ruining things for people in New York was not enough he pushed the Comstock Act into federal law—which is how the authors of Project 2025 plan to ban pornography and access to information about abortion. He persecuted trailblazing women like Victoria Woodhull and Margaret Sanger fueled by his weird obsessions and religious guilt.

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It's our first "Short Rant," where we'll relate current events to history! These are videos posted on our YouTube and TIkTok accounts and the audio will be available here within a day.

President Trump announced "Liberation Day" on April 2, 2025 with broad and sweeping tariffs that are causing stock market panic and layoffs even in the earliest days. His case for high tariffs are good policy are based on his admiration for the 25th President, William McKinley. But Trump is either ignorant of or lying about the truth about American tariff policies in the late 19th century. If history is any predictor of future events, bad things are in store both for the economy and to Republicans' future electoral chances.